Now the other point that uh the person
uh brought up is about the organized
religion and you hear this a lot where a
person would be like you know that all
religions are just man-made and we I
would agree we shouldn't have to follow
a man-made religion organized by men. So
how can we clear up this misconception?
I think what's happened is um at least
in western society there's been a lot of
disappointment with certain religions
because you could see clearly the
logical contradictions in them like
right off the bat. you don't even have
to go go deep into finding the logical
contradictions. You could see them right
off the bat.
So what's happened is that stigma has
been we've taken that that paint and
we've brushed all the religions with the
same paint and we've said basically oh
this one's m religion one is man-made
religion two is man-made therefore all
the others must be man-made too. So we
actually stop looking into religion
altogether. Right? What we're arguing is
that's not a fair assessment. You know,
just like you don't judge, you know, you
don't meet two people from a certain
race and then pass judgment on the
entire race. You don't meet two people
of that gender and then pass judgment of
the entire gender. Same same thing with
religion. You come across a certain
religion and you're not satisfied with
it. You didn't find it convincing.
That's not fair for you to just brush
off all other religions and say, "Oh,
they're all man-made." That's actually
an oversimplification and a an
intellectual laziness on your part.
You're actually just justifying to
yourself that, yeah, I was kind of
thinking about submitting to my creator.
I didn't find something, you know,
satisfying, so I'm just going to go back
to my old distractions. Right? It's kind
of like I'll tell you, you you're only
going to dig, you know, the analogy,
you're only going to dig into something,
and you're going to only spend effort
and time in something that you think is
worth it. Like if I ask you to dig a a
hole into the ground for $5 and and dig
10 ft half the day, you won't do it. But
if I say dig 10 ft and I'll give you
20,000, you'll start shoveling.
Yeah.
So you'll only put time and effort into
something that you think is worth it. If
you think the truth and finding the
purpose in your life is worth it, you'll
dig and not find, then dig again and not
find and dig again and not find until
you find, right? You're going to keep on
digging. But this this attitude of oh
generally just without even any inquiry
without even caring to look at the
matter you just say oh you know I don't
have to look into it I already know that
there's nothing it's all man-made we're
all going to go to heaven well the idea
of heaven comes from religion anyway so
where did you get that idea right you're
you're jumping the gun and you're it's
actually showing your intellectual
laziness your emotional laziness and
perhaps the reason is maybe you don't
want to find the truth maybe in deep
inside you you're scared that if you
find the truth It's going to ask you to
change yourself. And if you don't want
to change yourself, Allah says in the
Quran,
very beautiful. He says, "No, the human
being, he wants to continue to disobey
and explode in his disobedience that is
in front of him right away. He wants to
stay in that rut."
Yeah.
And then that's what leads him to ask,
"Oh, when is the judgment day coming
anyway? When is resurrection coming?
It's not going to happen. We're all
going to go to heaven." Look at what
Allah said and look at what you're
saying. It's like he drew a picture of
what you're saying. Subhan Allah. You
know what? When I when I study Quran and
then I I look at the kinds of questions
people ask, it's incredible. Allah knows
us better than we know ourselves. You're
not the first person to ask this
question. There have been hundreds of
thousands of people before, millions if
not, that have asked the same question
of their Lord, of their purpose in life.
And there are people who found that
answer and were sincere to themselves.
And there were people who passed by
these responses and said, "No, my
desires, my temptations, my seductions
are just too powerful for me. I'm going
to stay in this mess. You have to decide
if you're stronger than your desires."
And I want to create an urgency with
this person. I know they're sincere in
the many uh thousands that are watching
that death is a reality. It's not
something that this should be put off
searching for the truth. Thousands of
people just in America die every day.
I'm told that close to 150,000 die
globally. So death can reach us at any
time and this is a fact and we should
kind of get on the ball about finding
what the true purpose of our life is.
Absolutely. You know
Allah says wherever you may be death
will come to you. Even if you are in
fortified camps you're in the best
security system. Death does not need to
knock on your door. It will come right
to you. You could be in your beds. You
could be in your sleep. You could be
driving to work. You could be perfectly
healthy one day and a heart attack and
died the next. We say it was sudden
cause sudden death, right? Cause of
death unknown. This happens too. Death
is not in your hands. It is the hands of
your creator. And because there's no
timeline, you think you make a 40-year
plan, you may not even have 3 hours left
on this earth. I don't know how much
time I have left. You don't know how
much time you have left. So you we have
to have a sense of urgency to finding
our purpose because once that that the
clock stops ticking and we leave this
earth then like one of the companions of
the prophet said he said people are
sleeping it's beautiful he said people
are sleeping and when they die is when
they wake up that's when their eyes open
people are asleep so we we ask that you
wake up before you go into the grave
where everybody else thinks you've been
put to sleep the reality will be you've
actually been woken up at that point and
you don't we don't want we don't wish
that upon you. We don't wish that you
wake up at that point. We wish upon you
that you wake up now that you look at
think about your purpose and reality now
in
Yeah. And it's not fair now that you
expect the creator or you go to your
boss and he told you and he gave you a
list of responsibility. You neglected
it. Now you want to get paid at the end.
Yeah. Exactly.
Doesn't make sense. Okay. Thank you for
being with us.
Quite welcome.
We hope to have you back again.
Inshallah. God bless.
Thank you. I really hope that you're
sincere, that you're honest, and I sure
that you I'm I'm sure that you want to
know the truth, and I hope that this
somewhat will stimulate you to continue
on in your journey. Do the most
important thing. Ask the one who created
this universe and everything in it. Take
the first step. Don't fight the
guidance.
Ask him to guide you. The one who
created you and took care of you and is
still taking care of you. Ask him for
the guidance.
and he created you. I mean, one of the
beautiful thing is that he's the most
loving and the most merciful and it'd be
unfair that he wouldn't guide you. But
it's unfair to yourself if you don't
even ask him to give you the guidance.
So, ask him to guide you. Take that
first step, that first crucial step to
wanting to know the truth. And then when
the truth comes, be on it. It's very
simple. And Islam is calling you to
something that's in your very nature. to
be a slave, to be one who surrenders and
submits to just God alone and not his
creation. And if you can dig this this
simple thing, then everything else will
fall in place. It's a very beautiful way
of life. And we hope that you got the
benefit from this show and we look
forward to having you again. God willing
inshallah on the Dean show. Until next
time, assalamlaykum. Peace be unto you.
Allah
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Allah
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Come and see what everyone's talking
about. prove if you find one
contradiction, it kept me from God.
But the rational idea, the rational
explanation is you do your best. Give up
worshiping God as one. I will never give
up spreading this message. Hope that you
take that necessary step. You don't know
if you're going to live till tomorrow.
So you got to find that urgency to do
the right thing right now.
The reality of life usually doesn't sink
in until tragedy comes.
You get a few bad people, the media
grabs a hold of that and spends it the
way they want to.
If you say that you do not believe in
Jesus, you have stepped outside of
Islam. You cannot be a Muslim. has
attended our faith to
it's
everybody sleeping.
I arise
and ask Allah to forgive me.
Oh Allah, you see,
oh Allah, you know
all the sins I do.
I turn to you to forgive my sins in my
heart.
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I'm your sinful slave.
You're my loving Lord.
I'm the one who runs away.
Oh Allah, guide me.